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for this year by president obama -- >> wow. [applause] >> and i spend a lot of my time, thank you, i spend a lot of my time speaking on mass incarceration and using proper reentry tools, and i'll tell you a little bit about why i do that later on. >> while we may seem strange partners on this stage here -- [laughter] the thing that binds us is that we have both written memoirs. and for me, it's my first memoir. i've written eight novels. some of you may know some of my titles, "in between boundary boundaryies," etc. i really am an academic. i have been teaching in the city university for many, many years and am currently at hunter college. and this is my first memoir, "not for everyday use." so the first question i want to ask tracey is a question that a lot of people ask me, actually, is how do you get the courage to put in print some really true and hard things about yourself? because when you're writing, when i'm writing a novel, i can hide behind the fiction. when you're writing a memoir, you've got to put it all out there.
for this year by president obama -- >> wow. [applause] >> and i spend a lot of my time, thank you, i spend a lot of my time speaking on mass incarceration and using proper reentry tools, and i'll tell you a little bit about why i do that later on. >> while we may seem strange partners on this stage here -- [laughter] the thing that binds us is that we have both written memoirs. and for me, it's my first memoir. i've written eight novels. some of you may know some of my titles,...
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by president obama. i spend a lot of my time -- thank you. i spend a lot of my time speaking on mass incarceration and grand jury tools for offenders coming home. i will tell you a little bit about why did that. >> we may seem strange partners on the stage here. the thing that binds us as we have both written memoirs. for me it's my first memoir. i've written eight novels. some of you may know some of my titles. in between boundaries -- mike really am an academic. i have been teaching in the university for many years and currently at hunter college. this is my first memoir. the first question i want to ask tracey is a question that a lot of people ask me actually is how do you get the courage to put in print some true and hard things about yourself? when i am writing a novel i can hide behind the fiction. when you are writing a memoir and you have to put a welfare. >> that's a great question elizabeth. in my book i take people to my lowest point in life and is it 20 year business owner a lot of people ha
by president obama. i spend a lot of my time -- thank you. i spend a lot of my time speaking on mass incarceration and grand jury tools for offenders coming home. i will tell you a little bit about why did that. >> we may seem strange partners on the stage here. the thing that binds us as we have both written memoirs. for me it's my first memoir. i've written eight novels. some of you may know some of my titles. in between boundaries -- mike really am an academic. i have been teaching in...
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our foreign policy to this day, to this week, to president obama talking a week ago about our role in syria are not powerful in syria, whether there should be a moral component to american foreign policy. all of this stuff, all of these questions. is america the policeman of the world? that all goes back as indeed does every major policy decision come is certainly one involving an american incursion i'll spare in the world all goes back to one line, the world must be made safe for democracy. .. >> we're going to war.ly w we, a country with an army theek size of that of portugal, was now going to send two million men overseas. and i'm not talking aboutm n crossing the pond here, we're talking about the atlantic ocean. w and, indeed, america went to war. and as a result of that war, america emerged as the first great modern superpower. indeed, a genuine military industrial complex for the first time.the wilson's main reason -- there are all sorts of things, and a there are chapters in the book on this, but wilson's main reason i believe that he sent us into this war, was that he believe
our foreign policy to this day, to this week, to president obama talking a week ago about our role in syria are not powerful in syria, whether there should be a moral component to american foreign policy. all of this stuff, all of these questions. is america the policeman of the world? that all goes back as indeed does every major policy decision come is certainly one involving an american incursion i'll spare in the world all goes back to one line, the world must be made safe for democracy. .....
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tell us about the award you got from president obama. let's have a high note here. >> chewed 30th, two weeks ago, so now all remember this day for the rest of my life. i thought in 2011 when i became entrepreneur of the year by the chamber of commerce, the first african american and that one year history. they didn't always the first ex-offender also. they didn't know until after they give me the award. i thought that was the talk. once i'm gone, that is always going to be there. about a month and a half ago i got an e-mail from the white house. as they say or develop programs, which i talked about the mlb program, but i also speak in prisons in drug rehab centers in halfway houses on the end of mass incarceration for nonviolent offenders in proper rich rituals through entrepreneurship for folks that come home from prison because i believe that i learned from this, over 1985 i attended the million man march in one of things was if he didn't have a charge, you do another job for me or charge was to go to your community and create one and
tell us about the award you got from president obama. let's have a high note here. >> chewed 30th, two weeks ago, so now all remember this day for the rest of my life. i thought in 2011 when i became entrepreneur of the year by the chamber of commerce, the first african american and that one year history. they didn't always the first ex-offender also. they didn't know until after they give me the award. i thought that was the talk. once i'm gone, that is always going to be there. about a...
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you wonder what obama six the irs on me. ice because the government employs can work in the privatee sector to the we get into it we can't but if you can you take a government job. that's why countries failing to i assess going all over the world. i speak about branding from one of the earth to the of the hutchison south africa gushes in amsterdam and ask for an audience this question. raise your hand eating i'm passionate anti-energy. raise your hand the joy have a lot of energy? now compare my energy to an employee of the department of motor vehicles. [laughter] i get laughter in every country in the world. do you know what that means? small businessmen like me wake up and we don't know how we're paying our mortgage this month. i don't know how i am paying for my daughter to go to harvard but i figure out a way and it always begins with being fast and decisive and working hard. government employees don't have those issues. they have a job for life. they can never be fired in many cases they can rape someone and they still
you wonder what obama six the irs on me. ice because the government employs can work in the privatee sector to the we get into it we can't but if you can you take a government job. that's why countries failing to i assess going all over the world. i speak about branding from one of the earth to the of the hutchison south africa gushes in amsterdam and ask for an audience this question. raise your hand eating i'm passionate anti-energy. raise your hand the joy have a lot of energy? now compare...
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him and he prepared endlessly, you know, president obama, same thing. it's not a a pleasant experiene because your georgine telling you how terrible you are. but it's to prepare you to actually be able to do it. in that first debate i guess picking up the queue from the press, somehow i was being pictured as a fourth-grade girl who prepares and does her homework, right? raises her hand and wants to do a good job and all of that. that's the way it was being sort of portrayed. and so you know, , trump said well, yeah, i mean, you actually prepared for this debate. you know, first i thought, that's a new insult. [laughing] you know, and i said yeah, and i'll tell you what else are prepared for, i prepared to be president. [cheers and applause] crazy. >> i think you have a few friends here. [shouting] [applause] as someone who grew up in vienna and barely escaped the holocaust, my mother would say them time to time that it could happen here. i would be very dismissive of that. i would dismiss it and i would dismiss her comments interferes as implausible. i
him and he prepared endlessly, you know, president obama, same thing. it's not a a pleasant experiene because your georgine telling you how terrible you are. but it's to prepare you to actually be able to do it. in that first debate i guess picking up the queue from the press, somehow i was being pictured as a fourth-grade girl who prepares and does her homework, right? raises her hand and wants to do a good job and all of that. that's the way it was being sort of portrayed. and so you know, ,...
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as it is," which provides a behind the scenes look inside the obama administration. in frenemies, the new yorker's ken aletta looks at the impact of the digital age on the advertising industry. rob shank discusses balancing faith and politics in his book, "costly grace." and abc news chief legal affairs anchor dan abrams examines the murder trial that helped propel abraham lincoln to the presidency in "lincoln's last trial." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. ..
as it is," which provides a behind the scenes look inside the obama administration. in frenemies, the new yorker's ken aletta looks at the impact of the digital age on the advertising industry. rob shank discusses balancing faith and politics in his book, "costly grace." and abc news chief legal affairs anchor dan abrams examines the murder trial that helped propel abraham lincoln to the presidency in "lincoln's last trial." look for these titles in bookstores this...
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then of course i served -- begun serving in congress and have been here for a whole two and a half weeks as a member of -- from illinois for the fourth district. >> what advice did you govern then state senator barack obama? you still follow today. >> i told him, make sure you don't stumble upon arriving here, i taught him some of the protocols of the senate. i -- because he also claimed to have similar values to me, told him who to look out for in the illinois senate. suggested that he reach across the aisle, which he did, very, very successfully, by working with republican leader and others members of the house, who were in the majority at the time that he arrived, but i had no clue that he would have the type of rise that he did to become the state's u.s. senator and then of course the president of the united states for two terms. so, you never know what kind of encounters being an elected official will give you and of course that's one of the most positive ones. >> new jersey has sent evervan drew to the u.s. congress, a dentist who worked his way up from the general assembly to the
then of course i served -- begun serving in congress and have been here for a whole two and a half weeks as a member of -- from illinois for the fourth district. >> what advice did you govern then state senator barack obama? you still follow today. >> i told him, make sure you don't stumble upon arriving here, i taught him some of the protocols of the senate. i -- because he also claimed to have similar values to me, told him who to look out for in the illinois senate. suggested...
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, the week that barack obama was nominated as the president and vice president, the number of folks who filed with 620,000 people. i read read the news today announced it was 300,000 exactly. and so when you think about job creation in this country, any time that number is under 400,000, we are creating those jobs are added and the numbers go up and down we keep an average of about 320,000 and we need to create an economy that has a marker even more. one of the keys to doing that and the 800-pound gorilla is in the room and we get our heads around the health care cost and be able to wrestle them to the ground and just by health care providers and companies in this lot of smart stuff moving him secure systems and health care systems and focusing on prevention and wellness in making better use of technologies. and so a question, if i could. allen said was that morning what we need to do to continue to make progress and he said find out what works and do more of that. and i said find out what doesn't work any and the less of that? and he said yes. so obesity, it can eat us alive. we are tr
, the week that barack obama was nominated as the president and vice president, the number of folks who filed with 620,000 people. i read read the news today announced it was 300,000 exactly. and so when you think about job creation in this country, any time that number is under 400,000, we are creating those jobs are added and the numbers go up and down we keep an average of about 320,000 and we need to create an economy that has a marker even more. one of the keys to doing that and the...
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in urbana-champaign, and i saw this young, fresh-faced guy running for the senate called barack obama. and i was at the house of friends, and can they said he is the great hope of the democrats. and i said, well, let's watch him because i'm always interested in great heaps. [laughter] great hopes. and the great hope was asked, president bush has said that it might be necessary to bomb iran and take out their nuclear installations or whatever they're doing, and what would be your position on that? i support the president totally. said the great hope. [laughter] so that was my first sighting of him, and i just felt instinctively that this is a guy who is really going to try to please, and he is a weak guy in many ways. and is not going to push through some tiny shift in domestic or global policies. >> to watch this program in its entirety, go to booktv.org. simply type the title or the author's name at the top left of the screen and click search. wh >> i'm holding "the essential engineer: why science alone will not solve our global problems."h its author joins me, henry petroski. welcom
in urbana-champaign, and i saw this young, fresh-faced guy running for the senate called barack obama. and i was at the house of friends, and can they said he is the great hope of the democrats. and i said, well, let's watch him because i'm always interested in great heaps. [laughter] great hopes. and the great hope was asked, president bush has said that it might be necessary to bomb iran and take out their nuclear installations or whatever they're doing, and what would be your position on...
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one of the last weeks that congress was in session in july, she had a confirmation hearing. this issue was mentioned but barely talked about, and right now i don't see any big roadblocks to her getting confirmed, but this could raise some issues with other senators as she goes forward. >> host: is this the biggest issue she's going to face? what's on her plate? >> guest: oh, there's a lot on her plate. so this is a big deal. this is almost $300 million. but when you look at how massive social security really is, you know, i had some numbers, 58 million people get social security benefits. now, most of those are retirement benefits. that's almost one out of five americans. about 11 million get disability benefits. and so, you know, last year social security paid out over $600 billion in retirement benefits and $140 billion in disability benefits. one of the problems with the disability program is that it's, the finances are not secure right now. in two years the trust fund that supports the disability program is scheduled to run out of money. and at that point disability will
one of the last weeks that congress was in session in july, she had a confirmation hearing. this issue was mentioned but barely talked about, and right now i don't see any big roadblocks to her getting confirmed, but this could raise some issues with other senators as she goes forward. >> host: is this the biggest issue she's going to face? what's on her plate? >> guest: oh, there's a lot on her plate. so this is a big deal. this is almost $300 million. but when you look at how...
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so tell us about the award he got from a president obama. let's have a high note here. >> june 30, 2 weeks ago so now i can remember this date for the rest of my life. i thought when i became entrepreneur of the year by the chamber of commerce as one of the first african-americans in the 51 your history and they didn't know i was an ex-offender. they didn't know it until after they gave me the award. i thought that was the time. that's always going to be there but a month and half ago i got an e-mail from the white house. as i say i develop programs which i talked about the program but i also speak at prisons and drug rehab centers in halfway houses across the country on issues of ending mass incarceration for nonviolent offenders and entrepreneurship for folks coming out of prison. i learned this in 1985, october 1985. i attended the fair con march and one of the things farrakhan said was if you didn't have a job go back to our community and create one. i started my business through month after that. so fast-forward to june 30 when i got th
so tell us about the award he got from a president obama. let's have a high note here. >> june 30, 2 weeks ago so now i can remember this date for the rest of my life. i thought when i became entrepreneur of the year by the chamber of commerce as one of the first african-americans in the 51 your history and they didn't know i was an ex-offender. they didn't know it until after they gave me the award. i thought that was the time. that's always going to be there but a month and half ago i...
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so the of the week obama's at the debt is not a problem. for 10 years we don't have to worry about debt. not just that, deficit spending close become. i read almost everything again online and there are furious people in mainstream publications who sat there and argued during the debt ceiling debate that we should have a trillion dollar platinum coin, deposited in the treasury and wash her hands of this. these are serious people and they called the tea party crazy. safi like the whole world is spinning out of control and i'm the only normal person in it, with you guys, and everyone has just gone crazy. think about obama and budgets and everything we talk about. his budget is a huge massive zero-sum fallacy masquerading as policy. it's not a budget like you think of a budget. it's not about economic growth. it's about fairness. he doesn't care about growth. he looks at the world as a piper come sure most of you read milton friedman and you have ridiculous that is. which brings the to the scares prospect of all. what does this say? well, to m
so the of the week obama's at the debt is not a problem. for 10 years we don't have to worry about debt. not just that, deficit spending close become. i read almost everything again online and there are furious people in mainstream publications who sat there and argued during the debt ceiling debate that we should have a trillion dollar platinum coin, deposited in the treasury and wash her hands of this. these are serious people and they called the tea party crazy. safi like the whole world is...
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and then just a few weeks later in colorado, the united states district court judge raymond amore was appointed by president obama and unanimously confirmedn by the senate issued a temporary restraining order against a gun and magazine band that had been enacted by the town of superior, colorado which was in boulder county. and soon, similar laws and bands other in boulder municipalities in the county itself were also brought under temporary restraining order's. this tro's will remain in effect until january when there is going to beng a hearing on a preliminary injunction motion. u.s. district courts in other states also issued some important rulings against theal constitutionality of some other gun control laws. what happened just last june is that the big change from what had been judicial enforcement of the second amendment. there is a period that began after 1939 when the supreme court upheld a tax and registration -- federal tax and registration on sawed-off rshotguns. and for decades thereafter the second amendment only appeared in supreme court cases in cameo roles such as jus
and then just a few weeks later in colorado, the united states district court judge raymond amore was appointed by president obama and unanimously confirmedn by the senate issued a temporary restraining order against a gun and magazine band that had been enacted by the town of superior, colorado which was in boulder county. and soon, similar laws and bands other in boulder municipalities in the county itself were also brought under temporary restraining order's. this tro's will remain in effect...
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you know, for a couple of weeks at least after this crisis hit the first page of the newspaper, president obama constantly pointed to those parts of the law that he said tie his hands in terms of quickly, effectively deporting some of these individuals. he pointed to the 2008 changes of the law over and over and over again. the problem is a couple weeks after that when he actually sent up a proposal to congress to deal with the crisis, that talk was gone. mention of that was gone. there was no suggestion of any change in the law in that regard or any other regard. the only request he made was money. $3.7 billion, a huge amount of additional money, the great majority of it to feed and house and relocate these illegal aliens, including unaccompanied alien children within our own country. now, madam president, the problem with that is that's going to encourage this flow. that's going to encourage this problem to grow. it's not going to discourage it. it's not going to end it. so we need that comprehensive approach including necessary changes to the law and enforcement to quickly deport these
you know, for a couple of weeks at least after this crisis hit the first page of the newspaper, president obama constantly pointed to those parts of the law that he said tie his hands in terms of quickly, effectively deporting some of these individuals. he pointed to the 2008 changes of the law over and over and over again. the problem is a couple weeks after that when he actually sent up a proposal to congress to deal with the crisis, that talk was gone. mention of that was gone. there was no...
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not unlike what happened three, four weeks ago on the election night at ole miss. one newspaper reporter had called it a race riot, racist riot occurring by the -- well, it was not that. anti-obama students, pro-romney students came out onto the campus and demonstrated. the right, they can do that against the results of the election, and a handful of students were screaming out racial slurs. putting that in context, then the next day three times that amount of people showed up for a candlelighter is mopeny protesting the -- ceremony, protesting the incident the night before. so mississippi was, mississippi is. it's moving on. but, yes, you're right. there's more and more that should come out and talk about it. so you can get a balanced picture that their view of the south may not be the correct view today. it's not just a bunch of rioters throwing bricks. thank you. john. >> henry, can you talk a little more about the special security detail that you had following, you know, your initial -- >> sure. >> -- and how were, i assume you were just chosen for that, but wa
not unlike what happened three, four weeks ago on the election night at ole miss. one newspaper reporter had called it a race riot, racist riot occurring by the -- well, it was not that. anti-obama students, pro-romney students came out onto the campus and demonstrated. the right, they can do that against the results of the election, and a handful of students were screaming out racial slurs. putting that in context, then the next day three times that amount of people showed up for a...
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to cut this part out of the tape where you can go to cnn or msnbc because i want my paycheck every week. [laughter] [applause] >> i honestly think -- yeah, this comes in waves, as i said before i know the admiral will agree with me on, this barack obama was a perfect gentleman, there wasn't uncivil bone in his body and presumably whoever whenever it happens replaces donald trump will not have this attitude that you and a lot of us feel is animating us toward the type of thing that we saw on thursday. but really the voters need to know about the people they're electing. they need to know the attitude, the big heartedness, the lust for power that exists in the mind and heart of the people they are voting for. >> i think it's going take nothing less than a change in the present leadership. getting so tired of watching and i said it on television, mcconnell and reed, just talking about each other. [applause] >> i said this -- everything i've said here, they've got to go. i mean, the leader -- they all have to go. it's not their fault. they need to be relieved for cause. that's just accounta
to cut this part out of the tape where you can go to cnn or msnbc because i want my paycheck every week. [laughter] [applause] >> i honestly think -- yeah, this comes in waves, as i said before i know the admiral will agree with me on, this barack obama was a perfect gentleman, there wasn't uncivil bone in his body and presumably whoever whenever it happens replaces donald trump will not have this attitude that you and a lot of us feel is animating us toward the type of thing that we saw...
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if they did they would be fired in two weeks. you wonder why the obama six the iris on me. i speak honestly to govern in place can work in the private sector. you either do or you can't. that's what our country failing to i ask this question all over the world. i speak about branding from one end of this earth today of the. i was just in amsterdam and asked foreign audiences this question. raise your hand if you think i am passionate and i energy. raise your hand. do i have a lot of energy? now compare my energy to the employees of the department of motor vehicles employ. i get laughter in every country in the world. do you know what that means? small businessmen like a wakeup in the morning and we don't know how we are paying our mortgage this month. i don't know i'm going to pay for my time to go to harvard this month. i figured out a way and it always begins with being fast and decisive and working hard. government employees don't have those issues. they have a job for life. they can never be fired. in many cases they can rape someone and they were still get their pensio
if they did they would be fired in two weeks. you wonder why the obama six the iris on me. i speak honestly to govern in place can work in the private sector. you either do or you can't. that's what our country failing to i ask this question all over the world. i speak about branding from one end of this earth today of the. i was just in amsterdam and asked foreign audiences this question. raise your hand if you think i am passionate and i energy. raise your hand. do i have a lot of energy? now...
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hear the words of george washington and abraham lincoln through ronald reagan and barack obama. this week, we will feature speeches by two presidents, first lyndon johnson who cofounded america's better angels in his 1964 great society speech and again in 1965 when speaking about immigration and then richard nixon's 1969 appeal to the silent majority to help a nation at odds over the vietnam war and his 1974 oval office resignation address following the watergate scandal. >> i have never been a quitter. i lve office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. but as president, must put the interests of america first. >> watch our 10 part series, speeches that defined a presidency saturday at 9:30 a.m. and p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. >> booktv, every sunday on c-span2 features ading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. at 8 p.m. pm eastern, florida republican governor ron the santoshares the coure to free out his leadership in florida d how his success conserve as a blueprt r reviving america and at 10:00 pm on "after wo
hear the words of george washington and abraham lincoln through ronald reagan and barack obama. this week, we will feature speeches by two presidents, first lyndon johnson who cofounded america's better angels in his 1964 great society speech and again in 1965 when speaking about immigration and then richard nixon's 1969 appeal to the silent majority to help a nation at odds over the vietnam war and his 1974 oval office resignation address following the watergate scandal. >> i have never...
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. >> rachel, before you go, rachel, how many times a week do you and your husband argue over politics? >> caller: well, when i had voted for obama, he would come in, if i had the news on, he'd say turn it off. i don't want to watch that. i can't stand to watch him. now when he comes in, and he wants to tell me everything that trump's done and i argue with him because i watch c-span. >> rachel, have you ever thought of not talking about politics with your husband? >> caller: it's kind of hard because i'm a head strung woman, and i've never let anybody run over me. and especially when i think i'm right. and that's the only time we argue. but he's not going to get the best of me. i will put him in his place. >> that's rachel in texas. dr. evans? >> well, you know, she's pointing out an interesting fact, you know, that i think as a country we have lost the art of debate. right? so one of the things that contributes to the incivility i believe is that we haven't had -- we don't have the skills as a country to debate very controversial issues from a dispassionate standpoint. if you look at
. >> rachel, before you go, rachel, how many times a week do you and your husband argue over politics? >> caller: well, when i had voted for obama, he would come in, if i had the news on, he'd say turn it off. i don't want to watch that. i can't stand to watch him. now when he comes in, and he wants to tell me everything that trump's done and i argue with him because i watch c-span. >> rachel, have you ever thought of not talking about politics with your husband? >>...
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#given interview a couple weeks ago kindly asked about the obama foreign-policy. here is what jimmy carter said i cannot think of one country that we have a better relationship with today that the day he became pres. thatpresident. that came from a president of his own party. the world has become a more complicated and difficult place because of the lack of american leadership as personified by this president. the need for accurate real-time intelligence in our country is even more acute. in this world in terrorist activity by groups like al qaeda and isis and hezbollah we need to interdict before they act. it is not good enough to gets them afterwards. a single indispensable part of that is being active, engaged, well-funded intelligence committee. the report democrats put out last december regarding the intelligence efforts was an awful, partisans to put out by the democrats in the waning days in control of the u.s. senate that hurt morale and contained outright falsehoods. the pres. has continued to this path in my opinion with his conduct and added to some mem
#given interview a couple weeks ago kindly asked about the obama foreign-policy. here is what jimmy carter said i cannot think of one country that we have a better relationship with today that the day he became pres. thatpresident. that came from a president of his own party. the world has become a more complicated and difficult place because of the lack of american leadership as personified by this president. the need for accurate real-time intelligence in our country is even more acute. in...
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obama was elected on the message that we are going to fix health care. obamacare, by the time it passed, may not have been popular. but most people in the country one of wanted the government to do something about help chart. health care really isn't a free market before obamacare. it has already been messed up by the government steps that encourage people to buy insurance that someone else pays. but the results are already out there and they are already awful. a couple of years ago the detroit medical center announced that it was using barcodes to use computers to electronically keep track of all of its patients in all of their medical records and the drugs that they took. isn't this great? but think about it. supermarkets to that 40 years ago. coca-cola and pepsi is less important than our medical records. but it took 40 years of insanity before we brought this to the system where insurance companies and governments are pulling the strings. frederick hayek said the curious tax of economic is to teach men how little he understands about what he thinks h
obama was elected on the message that we are going to fix health care. obamacare, by the time it passed, may not have been popular. but most people in the country one of wanted the government to do something about help chart. health care really isn't a free market before obamacare. it has already been messed up by the government steps that encourage people to buy insurance that someone else pays. but the results are already out there and they are already awful. a couple of years ago the detroit...
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every week or so, like clockwork. and one of the the famous one was, of course, sandy hook. and a lot of people thought that a lot of them were false flag events staged. the purpose of gun control. but the interesting thing is that there was a massive run on the sale of and bullets ammunition as a result. so it seems if that was the agenda that completely backfired. so what do you think about that? yeah. so ryan bucy is a former gun company who is now he wrote a memoir called gunfight. i think it's called gunfight and he calls barack obama america's greatest gun because during eight years of obama's administration, i think gun sales, total gun sales, something like 100 million. you know, and that's about a quarter of our current national stockpile. so you are you are absolutely correct that in wake of these events like sandy hook, which was not a false flag event and people have been sued and lost many millions of for saying that sort of thing in the wake of events like sandy hook gun sales have spiked so they spiked
every week or so, like clockwork. and one of the the famous one was, of course, sandy hook. and a lot of people thought that a lot of them were false flag events staged. the purpose of gun control. but the interesting thing is that there was a massive run on the sale of and bullets ammunition as a result. so it seems if that was the agenda that completely backfired. so what do you think about that? yeah. so ryan bucy is a former gun company who is now he wrote a memoir called gunfight. i think...
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in april of 2015, all the bills were defeated and it was on wednesday of this week that the president suggested that president obama didn't fight hard enough and had no problem booking -- bucking the nra. that is some of the discussion you heard with that previous exchange. if you go to our website at c-span.org, you can see that meeting between the president and those legislators about the gun issue and everything else that happened in washington this week and in previous weeks when it comes to the gun issue. we invite you to go to c-span.org and see that for yourself. jd is next in maryland, republican line. caller: thank you for having me on. last time we banned assault weapons was during the clinton administration and that created a monster by the name of timothy mcveigh. he did not fire a shot. he went down and bought fertilizer and nitrate, diesel fuel, he mixed it together. buildingp the federal in oklahoma. he never fired a shot. you cannot blame the mechanism. that is what the clintons created. do you see my point? keep the second amendment. host: florida, independent line, j
in april of 2015, all the bills were defeated and it was on wednesday of this week that the president suggested that president obama didn't fight hard enough and had no problem booking -- bucking the nra. that is some of the discussion you heard with that previous exchange. if you go to our website at c-span.org, you can see that meeting between the president and those legislators about the gun issue and everything else that happened in washington this week and in previous weeks when it comes...
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after that a reprieve or president obama's trip to europe next week. later will re-air the senate bill to expand offshore oil and gas drilling [? >> now, a discussion of u.s.-china military relations. [applause] [speaking chinese] [inaudible] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [inaudible] and our military relations, in an effort to implement president president -- [inaudible] the name of this country literally means a beautiful country. pain hurts you personally enjoyed her beauty and her people. [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] >> translator: 94 years ago in 18 woodrow wilson signed mobilizing the whole nation to the occasion of the law that at current unprecedented catastrophe to mankind and also initiated the struggle for stabilized relations along major powers. the war and peace in the past century deserves our deep reflection. and this road we desire a good faith of stability. [speaking chinese] [speaking chi
after that a reprieve or president obama's trip to europe next week. later will re-air the senate bill to expand offshore oil and gas drilling [? >> now, a discussion of u.s.-china military relations. [applause] [speaking chinese] [inaudible] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [inaudible] and our military relations, in an effort to implement president president --...
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against barack obama. and that's the last ever hear of that story. he is never, never talks about it again. and in a meaningful way. the so here we are today and it's hard know how we move forward because things have not gotten better 60 years later we're still blaming the same things and it's it's really because i live in a city i've in the city all my life and it's my future. it's all our future as and now the cities are emptying again. but it's and it's flight again. but it's the who are fleeing are the people who are writing the editorials and op eds. so they're not stigmatizing themselves, they're just being quiet about it. cities like new york, los angeles, san francisco losing hundreds of thousands of people in last few years. the. the ultimate solution is i'm convinced and this is a good place to start any is and i close the book with this because i tell the story at end of the book a visiting with my mother on her deathbed. and she was a tough. o'beirne was not a very sentimental lady. those who k
against barack obama. and that's the last ever hear of that story. he is never, never talks about it again. and in a meaningful way. the so here we are today and it's hard know how we move forward because things have not gotten better 60 years later we're still blaming the same things and it's it's really because i live in a city i've in the city all my life and it's my future. it's all our future as and now the cities are emptying again. but it's and it's flight again. but it's the who are...
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i believe our economy's best days are ahead of us if we pass the kind of policies we can this week. until the tax code is competitive, there are people who think that secular stagnation is all we can get. bipartisan groups have pushed for ways this, simpson-bowles commission, wyden-coats and president obama called for tax cuts in the state of the union address. president obama's economic advisor said that reducing the corporate tax rate and lowering the -- this disadvantage is about as close to a relunch as tax reformers will get to. here we stand at the end of this reform process and the opponents to this reform pound their fists on their desks and shoot off standard talking points about millionaires and billionaires many they told us from the outset in a letter to senator mcconnell, they didn't want to have tax cuts for everyone and wouldn't accept a credible package. they could have worked with us and offered proposals to help us find solution that benefits all. they often mixed up with what is in the house proposal with the senate proposal because it is politically ex peed yernt
i believe our economy's best days are ahead of us if we pass the kind of policies we can this week. until the tax code is competitive, there are people who think that secular stagnation is all we can get. bipartisan groups have pushed for ways this, simpson-bowles commission, wyden-coats and president obama called for tax cuts in the state of the union address. president obama's economic advisor said that reducing the corporate tax rate and lowering the -- this disadvantage is about as close to...
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for this year by president obama -- >> wow. [applause] >> and i spend a lot of my time, thank you, i spend a lot of my time speaking on mass incarceration and using proper reentry tools, and i'll tell you a little bit about why i do that later on. >> while we may seem strange partners on this stage here -- [laughter] the thing that binds us is that we have both written memoirs. and for me, it's my first memoir. i've written eight novels. some of you may know some of my titles, "in between boundary boundaryies," etc. i really am an academic. i have been teaching in the city university for many, many years and am currently at hunter college. and this is my first memoir, "not for everyday use." so the first question i want to ask tracey is a question that a lot of people ask me, actually, is how do you get the courage to put in print some really true and hard things about yourself? because when you're writing, when i'm writing a novel, i can hide behind the fiction. when you're writing a memoir, you've got to put it all out there.
for this year by president obama -- >> wow. [applause] >> and i spend a lot of my time, thank you, i spend a lot of my time speaking on mass incarceration and using proper reentry tools, and i'll tell you a little bit about why i do that later on. >> while we may seem strange partners on this stage here -- [laughter] the thing that binds us is that we have both written memoirs. and for me, it's my first memoir. i've written eight novels. some of you may know some of my titles,...
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just last week, the obama administration took another step and proposed our nation's first rules to limit carbon pollution from existing power plants. although they won't be final for another year, these limits represent the most significant action that any country has taken to halt the devastating warming of our planet. they will have real and lasting health benefits. by cutting power plant pollution over the next 15 years, we will prevent 100,000 asthma attacks by children. 2100 heart attacks and thousands of premature deaths. that will mean nearly 500,000 fewer missed days of school and work and will save $7 in health costs for every $ required of new investment. over the long term, curbing climate change will make large, lasting and meaningful differences, from reduced hunger and heat waves to reducing the spread of infectious diseases or conflict over scarce resources. cynics will argue that even with these limits, we won't stop climate change, and that's true. they will point out that renewable energy technology isn't yet ready to fully replace fossil fuels. they will say that ameri
just last week, the obama administration took another step and proposed our nation's first rules to limit carbon pollution from existing power plants. although they won't be final for another year, these limits represent the most significant action that any country has taken to halt the devastating warming of our planet. they will have real and lasting health benefits. by cutting power plant pollution over the next 15 years, we will prevent 100,000 asthma attacks by children. 2100 heart attacks...
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earlier this week president obama released his budget request for 2017. the secretary of health and human services was on the hill talking about her chunk of the request that calls for $82 mi million in congressional support. she reminded us of the dangers of fighting ebola and the dangers of the zika virus. >> it is going to be my privilege to introduce the secretary. it would appear that senator wyden, grassley, and senator schumer are not here. they have conflicts. none intended. i am going to ask unanimous consent that the statements by the distinguished senator from oregon and the ranking member and the distinguished member hatch be inserted in the record. with us today is the health and human service secretary who has been leading the department of health and human services since june of 2014. she has a long history of public service sector including her previous position as director of the office and management of budget under president obama. in the clinton administration she was the deputy director of omb, the deputy chief of staff the president,
earlier this week president obama released his budget request for 2017. the secretary of health and human services was on the hill talking about her chunk of the request that calls for $82 mi million in congressional support. she reminded us of the dangers of fighting ebola and the dangers of the zika virus. >> it is going to be my privilege to introduce the secretary. it would appear that senator wyden, grassley, and senator schumer are not here. they have conflicts. none intended. i am...
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president, average hourly earnings grew at a rate of 1.3% during the course of president obama's last 18 months. they grew by 1.1% during president trump's first 18 months. that growth is slow. last week president trump also said we have more people working today than at any point ever in history. that's true, but it has been true since may of 2014. in fact, the private sector has added jobs for 102 months straight, the longest streak on record, 80% of that streak during the obama administration. so as in other parts of life, when it comes to jobs, president trump is once again coafgget on -- coasting on his inheritance. president trump has also said economic growth last quarter was 4.2%, and as you know, it was headed down big, he said, and it was a low number, he said, a very low number. in my opinion, it would have been less than zero. it was heading to negative numbers. first the economy did grow by 4.2% last quarter, but it grew by the same rate for several quarters in 2015 and 2016 under president obama. and there is not a single economist who thought we were heading into negati
president, average hourly earnings grew at a rate of 1.3% during the course of president obama's last 18 months. they grew by 1.1% during president trump's first 18 months. that growth is slow. last week president trump also said we have more people working today than at any point ever in history. that's true, but it has been true since may of 2014. in fact, the private sector has added jobs for 102 months straight, the longest streak on record, 80% of that streak during the obama...
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this on purpose, a collision in 2012 to look back at the 2012 campaign so this is is looking at the obama of verses from the race and that is coming out in august. >> the other is through the perilous fight also of the "washington post"and is a need to look back during the six weeks of the war of 1812 for what the city went through and how it changed and it is supposed to be a good read. if i get through two or three of those books i will be very proud of myself the other one is the great gatsby because believe it or not i never read it. >> on your screen is off 39 the book is called "state of disrepair" fixing the lt
this on purpose, a collision in 2012 to look back at the 2012 campaign so this is is looking at the obama of verses from the race and that is coming out in august. >> the other is through the perilous fight also of the "washington post"and is a need to look back during the six weeks of the war of 1812 for what the city went through and how it changed and it is supposed to be a good read. if i get through two or three of those books i will be very proud of myself the other one is...
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but it took weeks. and months.we're still learning about what the russians were up to. and how effectively they were. you know there is a propaganda. this was not their first rodeo. they knew how to influence voters.they used social media. they used bots and trolls and content farms, fake news. they were rolling it all out. and of course the question being investigated is, where they coordinating with the trump campaign?we will find the answer to that. but i thought it was important that people begin to pay attention to what the russians did because this is an ongoing threat. it is not going away. we finally learned that they had intruded into election systems and may be as many as 30 or more states. what does that mean? how do we protect ourselves from a foreign adversary? so there was that piece which was not given the coverage i thought. then as you remember, there was a big debate that started right at the election. was it economic or cultural anxiety? and i thought that was an important question. of course, there was economic anxiety but there is also a very clear
but it took weeks. and months.we're still learning about what the russians were up to. and how effectively they were. you know there is a propaganda. this was not their first rodeo. they knew how to influence voters.they used social media. they used bots and trolls and content farms, fake news. they were rolling it all out. and of course the question being investigated is, where they coordinating with the trump campaign?we will find the answer to that. but i thought it was important that people...
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both mike pence's so help me god and michelle obama's. the light we carry were released this week. the former vice president opens his book with i have always been loyal to president donald trump and concludes by saying that the two will disagree on what happened on january 6th, 2021. the former first lady writes in her latest book, it shook me profoundly to hear the man who'd replace my husband as president openly and unapologetically using ethnic slurs, making selfishness and hate somehow acceptable. the washington post book world review's beverly gages new book about j. edgar hoover, g-man. saying that it's masterful and that hoover emerges as a strangely tortured man who wielded power for an astonishing 48 years. and the national review looked at economist russ roberts latest book, wild problems, and concluded that it fits into the tradition of economists critiquing economics with an aim not to delegitimize it or denigrated, but to improve it. two of the current bestselling books, according to the los angeles times, are presidential in nature. they are historian john meacham's
both mike pence's so help me god and michelle obama's. the light we carry were released this week. the former vice president opens his book with i have always been loyal to president donald trump and concludes by saying that the two will disagree on what happened on january 6th, 2021. the former first lady writes in her latest book, it shook me profoundly to hear the man who'd replace my husband as president openly and unapologetically using ethnic slurs, making selfishness and hate somehow...
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obama's health care law. after two weeks of delays, error messages, things that the president calls glitches, the american people are united in saying that this is what a train wreck looks like. a recent poll by the associated press found that only 7% of americans say that this roll-out has gone either very well or extremely well, and the obama administration continues to say that the problems were just because of too many people trying to check out the web site the first day. so i bring to the floor, mr. president, the front page of sunday's "new york times," sunday, october 13, now 13 days into the exchange, with the headline above the fold, front-page sunday, "from the start, signs of trouble at health portal. many deadlines missed. web site problems may imperil finances of insurance market." this goes o on. this is a front-page story, continues on inside the paper, and it talks about how in march, henry chow, the chief digital architect of the obama administration's new on-line insurance marketplace, told
obama's health care law. after two weeks of delays, error messages, things that the president calls glitches, the american people are united in saying that this is what a train wreck looks like. a recent poll by the associated press found that only 7% of americans say that this roll-out has gone either very well or extremely well, and the obama administration continues to say that the problems were just because of too many people trying to check out the web site the first day. so i bring to the...
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>> they are scared of a gas tax, obama would never go there. this indexes the existing gas and diesel tax but we can project that income and bond and we figured out we could bond to the deck of filling in the hole in the trust fund and adding $17 billion a year for resilience, a state of good repair and all the things we need to do about. and refine my proposal and hopefully they will like it. >> i don't know if everyone knows the history of the gas tax, hasn't been raised since 1993 at least on the national level. the states have been doing it. >> over 30 states have done it. there have been no detrimental political consequences. a minority leader or incoming minority leader, kevin mccarthy, thought it was a brilliant strategy to keep california seat and turn out republicans to repeal the gas tax increase in california got his head handed to him, tim walz, my colleague, ran on an increase in the governor elect of michigan said fix the damn road. people are tired of being stuck in congestion and blowing out tires on potholes and the commercial
>> they are scared of a gas tax, obama would never go there. this indexes the existing gas and diesel tax but we can project that income and bond and we figured out we could bond to the deck of filling in the hole in the trust fund and adding $17 billion a year for resilience, a state of good repair and all the things we need to do about. and refine my proposal and hopefully they will like it. >> i don't know if everyone knows the history of the gas tax, hasn't been raised since...
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we declared weeks ago and reiterate personally to president obama the senate will continue to observe the biden rule so the american people have a voice in this momentous decision, they may elect a president who elects merritt garland or may not name someone very different. either way our view is this. give the people a voice in filling this vacancy as we continue working on the issues like these the american people are perfectly capable of having a say on this issue so give them a voice. let the american people -- senator mitch mcconnell. we have the mcconnell rule established by the republican leader. the american people pick the next president and senate so they can weigh on on this decision just as senator mcconnell brought you in 2016 with president obama's nominee, merritt garland with justice scalia's see. let the senate honor justice ginsburg's legacy by continuing to fight for the rights she fought for her entire career as a litigator, circuit judge and supreme court justice. .. wish, my most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installed. mada
we declared weeks ago and reiterate personally to president obama the senate will continue to observe the biden rule so the american people have a voice in this momentous decision, they may elect a president who elects merritt garland or may not name someone very different. either way our view is this. give the people a voice in filling this vacancy as we continue working on the issues like these the american people are perfectly capable of having a say on this issue so give them a voice. let...
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forcing us to waste time so we can again arrive at the exact same conclusion but simply later this week. now, this really has got to stop. in president obama's first year in office, republicans forced this procedural hurdle for a single judicial nominee, and it was a controversial one. let me say that again. in president obama's first year in office, republicans forced the procedural hurdle we've had to endure many times for one nominee, and that nominee was controversial. in president trump's first year in office, democrats have forced this procedural hurdle for every single judicial nominee except one. even if they actually supported him or her in the end, this is just the kind of partisan game that americans are so sick of. president trump should be commended for his strong judicial picks. the senate's going to keep working hard to confirm them, and we're going to succeed. the only question is whether democrats are going to keep wasting more of the senate's time getting there. i hope they won't. i hope they will end these pointless games so the senate can keep its time and its focus
forcing us to waste time so we can again arrive at the exact same conclusion but simply later this week. now, this really has got to stop. in president obama's first year in office, republicans forced this procedural hurdle for a single judicial nominee, and it was a controversial one. let me say that again. in president obama's first year in office, republicans forced the procedural hurdle we've had to endure many times for one nominee, and that nominee was controversial. in president trump's...
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three weeks before the debt ceiling compromise, was passed, i mean you could go back and look it up on nexus. everyone assumed there would be tax hikes plus spending cuts. that's what everyone said. they will split the baby. there will be tax hikes and spending cuts. we got the debt ceiling raised with only spending cuts. that is huge victory when we don't have the presidency and we don't have the united states senate. >> host: dear ms. colter, mitchell writes to you, given there have been many atheist and agnostic libertarian thinkers, most notably milton friedman and ayn rand, do you think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a nonbeliever and a libertarian? >> guest: a lot of libertarians are godless. and although i can't say in particular cases of milton friedman and ayn rand's, that they were cowards, that is generally my complaint with libertarians. what have libertarians accomplished politically? not that much. it's usually a way to avoid the hot-button issues. by the way, i'm always taunting libertarians, i am more libertarian than they are. they have just want to
three weeks before the debt ceiling compromise, was passed, i mean you could go back and look it up on nexus. everyone assumed there would be tax hikes plus spending cuts. that's what everyone said. they will split the baby. there will be tax hikes and spending cuts. we got the debt ceiling raised with only spending cuts. that is huge victory when we don't have the presidency and we don't have the united states senate. >> host: dear ms. colter, mitchell writes to you, given there have...
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earlier the president was at the white house re-signed a budget you passed by congress last week. that deal raises the debt ceiling until march 27 thing. here it is. >> well, last week, democrats and republicans came together to set up a responsible, long-term budget process, and what we now see is a budget that reflects our values, that grows our economy, creates jobs, keeps america safe. it's going to strengthen the middle class by investing in critical areas like education and job training and basic research. it keeps us safe by investing in our national security and making sure that our troops get what they need in order to keep us safe and perform all the outstanding duties that they do around the world. it protects our seniors by avoiding harmful cuts to medicare and social security. and it's paid for in a responsible, balanced way, in part, for example, by making sure that large hedge funds and private equity firms pay what they owe in taxes just like everybody else. and by locking in two years of funding, it should finally free us from the cycle of shutdown threats and las
earlier the president was at the white house re-signed a budget you passed by congress last week. that deal raises the debt ceiling until march 27 thing. here it is. >> well, last week, democrats and republicans came together to set up a responsible, long-term budget process, and what we now see is a budget that reflects our values, that grows our economy, creates jobs, keeps america safe. it's going to strengthen the middle class by investing in critical areas like education and job...